Family Matters

April 29.   Wayne added his thoughts,” In these weeks after Easter Jesus kept on calling on his disciples to believe in him and in his Father and to be true to his teaching. He also spoke of the coming of the Spirit as comforter and teacher. In John’s gospel...

We all have treasured memories, or just images, from way back in our lives.  Many years ago, when my sister and I were in boarding school in Aliwal North, on Sunday afternoons the girls went for our walk, smartly dressed in our Sunday uniform.  A memory I carry is...

St Francis may have spoken joyfully of Brother Fire and Sister Water, Brother Wind and our Sister, Mother Earth, but these family-friendly images have multiple manifestations, as is abundantly clear in recent times. Some are positive and very beneficial while others...

April 23.   Conversion experiences was one of Marie’s favourite topics and she had written a whole little booklet on it. She shared, “I have discovered much about my own faith through these conversion stories.  Some were life-changing events, like...

He said it. Janusz Wallus must rot in jail! What is it in me that reacts so violently to this concept, “rot in jail.?”  Is it just a way of speaking? Sadly, we hear it quite often and mostly in response to really gruesome crimes that are almost...

April 15.  Doctors and nurses are frontline workers these days dealing with the reality of life and death in the fight against Covid-19.   But other challenging situations arise too.  Sophie, a nurse, working in a public hospital shared, “I wonder...

Easter and Resurrection, synonymous or not? Maybe we shouldn’t use the term “Easter” when we talk of the season but rather “Resurrection”  which is a more descriptive term for the reality of who we are and what we are commemorating.    Resurrection...

OVERVIEW:  God is Family.  God, as Trinity is family and every human family, not only as individuals but as a unit, is an image of God and mirrors the relationship of the Trinity.  Pope Francis: Within the family which could be called a domestic church...

Was Jesus a prophet?  Was Elijah?  Was St Francis?  Is Pope Francis, or Prophet Bushiri, or am I?  But seriously, once years ago at a workshop, I was asked to describe myself and I came up with “mad prophet.”   I probably still am that...

NOTES:  The Easter weekend reflections are the final reflections from the Lenten booklet LOVE IS HIS LAW, LOVE IS HIS WAY. They also conclude the focus on St Francis with the April THOUGHTS more focused on aspects of creation.  Follow the DAILY THOUGHTS on...